Brimming

brim  (brm)

n.

1. The rim or uppermost edge of a hollow container or natural basin.

2. A projecting rim or edge: the brim of a hat.

3. A border or an edge. See Synonyms at border.

4. Full capacity: "No sooner had the fighting started than the hotel filled to the brim with a most extraordinary collection of people" (George Orwell).

v. brimmed, brim·ming, brims

v.intr.

1. To be full to the brim, often to overflowing: The cup is brimming with chowder.

2. To be abundantly filled or supplied: a monument brimming with tourists; workers brimming with pride.

v.tr.

To fill to the brim.

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[Middle English brimme.]

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

brimming - filled to capacity; "a brimful cup"; "I am brimful of chowder"; "a child brimming over with curiosity"; "eyes brimming with tears" brimful, brimfull full - containing as much or as many as is possible or normal; "a full glass"; "a sky full of stars"; "a full life"; "the auditorium was full to overflowing"